He challenged the status quo and called for action.

他向当时的现状发起挑战，号召人们行动起来。

They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.

他们可能会使同行评审的现状凝固不前。

It's called " nepotism" and " quid pro quo" .

称为裙带关系和等价交换。

Yet, upending the status quo often requires a fresh view.

然而，要想扭转局面，通常需要我们有一个全新的视角。

And the status quo is the unchanging situation as it is now.

" 现状" 是现在不变的状态。

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

上到邮政工会下到贺制造商的各方利益团都出于自身考虑，向美国邮政署的最监管机构——国会施加压力，坚称无论邮政总署怎样调整，他们目前赖以存的条件必须得到保护。

Still Carney says the status quo is not ok either.

尼还表示，保持现状也不是好办法。

" What the exit polls suggest is that Israelis have voted to preserve the status quo, " he said.

“投票后民调显示，以色列人投票支持的是维持现状，”他说。

" Quid pro quo" , something for something.

" 互相帮助" ，意思是一报还一报。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bucking the status quo with science and common sense, Dan has blue zoned the entire of states of Iowa and Hawaii.

用科学和常识改变现状，Dan把整个爱荷华州和夏威夷州都划成了蓝色区域。

And Diaz-Canel is expected to keep the status quo in Cuba, closely following the leadership of the Castro presidents, while Raul Castro will keep a powerful leadership position and have the final say on important decisions.

迪亚斯-内尔将保持古巴的现状，继续斯特罗总统的领导，而劳尔·斯特罗将保持强有力的领导地位，并在重要决策上拥有最终决定权。

The foolish and the absurd can subvert the status quo and give a different picture of the world.

愚蠢和荒谬能颠覆现状，让世界展现全新的面貌。

He was very much against the status quo, so he was always telling us that it's wrong that there should be people in such abject poverty, unable to feed their children.

他非常反对现状，所以他总是告诉我们，让人们处于如此赤贫之中，无法养活他们的孩子，这是不对的。

Without anger, we would be reconciled to accept the unacceptable, tolerate the intolerable, and thereby consign ourselves to a status quo in need of repair.

没有愤怒，我们便将被迫接受不可接受的事物，容忍不可容忍的行为，从而让自己陷入一种需要挽救的现状。

That means the status quo puts all Americans at risk.

这意味着现状将所有美国人置于危险之中。

The status quo simply won't last.

现状并不长久。

But Mr. Bolton is an inveterate disrupter, eagerly upsetting the status quo in furtherance of his policy goals.

但博尔顿的确是个急于打破现状，推进他的政策目标并且积习已深的破坏分子。

To shake up status quo, that's America.

改变现状，这就是美国。

This pandemic has shaking up the status quo, and laid bare a lot of our country's deep seated problems, from massive economic inequality, to ongoing racial disparities, to a lack of basic health care for people who need it.

这场大流行病动摇了现状，暴露出我国许多深层次的问题，从严重的经济不平等，到持续的种族差距，再到缺乏为需要它的人提供基本医疗服务。

A single unexpected result is enough to challenge the status quo.

一个意想不到的结果就足够挑战了。